― doug watson (solid air), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link
Symmetrically similar names aside, both bands were (are?) also fairly boring '90s grunge-progsters, both were from around Toronto, and both made music that was largely forgettable (altho OLP's minor hit "Superman's Dead" was enjoyably annoying.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
Actually, I do have trouble keeping apart some of the NY Dolls/Dead Boys guys, and remembering who was in which band... Arthur Kane vs. Cheetah Chrome, etc.
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
I bet even the bands forgot which name they were.
― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link
SO OTM.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago) link
― udu wudu (udu wudu), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
"Mystic Chords of Memory, you say? Afraid not! You're Artist #24830329 now and forevermore."
― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:08 (twenty years ago) link
For a while I thought Jandek and Janeck Shaeffer were the same person, but I was disabused of that notion recently.
― Super-Kate (kate), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 07:00 (twenty years ago) link
― mzui, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 09:28 (twenty years ago) link
― MattR, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 09:46 (twenty years ago) link
i dont know why i get them mixed up when their names aren't very similar. was whitney ever married to r kelly?
― lid, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 10:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago) link
Billy Currington / Bucky Covington (just now realized these are two different guys)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 30 July 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Sugarcubes/Sugababes
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 30 July 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Sugababes/SigurRoss
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 July 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Bizarros/Rezillos until last week i hadn't heard Bizarros. no longer mixed up
― outdoor_miner, Thursday, 30 July 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
The Strawbs / Strawberry Alarm ClockNashville Pussy / Pussy GaloreDavid Sylvian / Peter MurphySchubert / Schumann / Clara Schumann / William SchumanWilhelm Reich / Steve Reich, especially when people just say "Reich".The Flying Burrito Brothers / The Flying Lizards / The Flying Luttenbachers
― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Saturday, 1 August 2009 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, I thought there was an unknown German kraut rock band called Noy for at least a year, until I put it together that they had been talking about Neu!.
And though I don't get them confused, I always have a moment of hesitation whenever I have to speak the name of a composer with a non-intuitively pronounced name: Penderecki, Gorecki, Reich, Boulez, Xenakis.
― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Saturday, 1 August 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Dan Fogelberg and Deeds of Flesh
― Elvin Wayburn Phillips, Saturday, 1 August 2009 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
mink lungs / walt mink
― ian, Saturday, 1 August 2009 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Sepultura/Pantera
― dlp9001, Saturday, 1 August 2009 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been mixing up Kid Cudi and Kid Creole a lot lately.
― Kommen sie bitte und listen to Kraftwerk (EDB), Saturday, 1 August 2009 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I confuse anyone named Peter with any other guy named Peter.
― Department of Energy Department (u s steel), Saturday, 1 August 2009 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link
This year was really confusing until I realised that Florence and the Machine is not Flossie and the Unicorns.
I keep thinking that the Rentals are the Adverts, who in turn I apparently think are the Members.
EDB's post reminds me that I confuse Kid Creole and Kid Congo Powers, but not the other way round.
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I used to get the Adverts and ATV mixed up a bit.
― Calamari Merkin (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Donna Summer (the dj)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-ts-nOn6Y&Donna Summer (the singer)
― ANML_, Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh and Simple Minds & Simply Red
― ANML_, Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Lounge Lizards - Flying Lizards
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Worst one for me is remembering which one of Swervedriver and Skrewdrive is the good shoegaze band and which is the presumably bad white supremacist band. Potential for awkward moments in that one now Swervedriver are gigging again!
― eskimo kisses, Saturday, 1 August 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, I've mixed those two up in conversation before.
― Kommen sie bitte und listen to Kraftwerk (EDB), Saturday, 1 August 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Anvil Bitch - Angel Witch
― xhuxk, Monday, 12 October 2009 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
― Elvin Wayburn Phillips, Saturday, August 1
hahaha
― meisenfek, Monday, 12 October 2009 04:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Monoton and Monolake
― abanana, Monday, 12 October 2009 06:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Unrest / Unwound
― scarlettgalaxian.jpg (los blue jeans), Monday, 12 October 2009 06:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Performers with names that practically rhyme?
― anagram, Monday, 12 October 2009 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
"Modest Mouse / Mouse On Mars"absolutely! which was the electronic and which the indie rock band again? i don't care for either of them.
i confused the replacements with another group but have forgotten which one. it wasn't the residents.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 12 October 2009 10:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Kid Creole / King Creosote
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 12 October 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Fine Young Cannibals/Fun Lovin' Criminals
― Hey mighty brontosaurus! (Boxing Kangaroo), Monday, 12 October 2009 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Roy Montgomery / Roy Buchanan
― a╓by's (╓abies), Monday, 12 October 2009 12:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Neutral Milk Hotel / Three Mile Pilotthree word bands are just too much for my little brain...
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 12 October 2009 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Age of Chance/Art of NoiseAnthony Braxton/Toni Braxton
― anagram, Monday, 12 October 2009 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Stone Temple Pilots/Young Marble Giants
― surfing on hokusine waves (ledge), Monday, 12 October 2009 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Joe Sun / Joe South
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Momus/Matmos
― mottdeterre, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
June Christy/Chris Conner
If I hear one of them "blind" I always have give it a few seconds to figure out if its June or Chris
― mottdeterre, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
That's a good one. One minor thing: It's Connor.Ron Affif/Roni Ben-Hur
― Welcome To The King Pleasure-dome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 November 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link